RiverRead Books

      Lucy Wilson Sherman is the author of the memoir Laying Foundations: A Year Building a Life While Rebuilding a Farmhouse­, the story of an unlikely couple—mismatched intellectually, socially, racially—who renovate an abandoned farmhouse in northeast Pennsylvania. She is also the author of Uncommon Appetites, a collection of personal essays that alternate between humor and gravity, from descriptions of many failed attempts at homesteading to a passion for goats and mowing, and a keenness to come to terms with mortality. Two of her essays have been published in the journal Creative Nonfiction; another is coming out in the next edition of the on-line magazine Ragazine. She holds an MFA degree from Goddard College. She lives with her husband on the farm they rebuilt in Susquehanna, PA, where, after twenty-five years of nearly continuous home improvement, they are launched once more on a whole new renovation project.